{"id":6422,"date":"2017-07-15T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2017-07-15T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T15:32:16","slug":"chickens-home-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6422","title":{"rendered":"Chickens.  Home.  Roost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White born again Christians are the reason Trump is in the White House. Full stop.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; sean. (@SeanMcElwee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMcElwee\/status\/885987964592979969\">July 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was white evangelicals who were Trump&#8217;s indispensable supporters, and it is to white evangelicals that Trump turns when he needs a public-relations boost.  Recall the photos from just a few days ago of evangelical leaders standing around The Donald, praying and laying-on hands.  Now, as with the tweet above, the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost.  Longtime readers will recall that  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5140\" target=\"_blank\">I predicted this<\/a> just a few days after the election:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Third, 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump, and that will eventually sink into public consciousness, as in, <i>Wait a minute! What are you saying? The church people gave us that piece of sh*t p***y-grabber?!<\/i> Yep, they did \u2014 and that will be the tale of how the Evangelical Right and \u2018movement so-called conservatism\u2019 committed political suicide. They might make some noise, occasionally score a small victory \u2026 but they are done. The Trump administration, with its inevitable serial indecencies and corruptions, is their achievement, and they will never live it down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good.  The Evangelical Right is, and has been since the days of the Moral Majority, a malignant presence in our national life &#8212; irrational, mean-spirited, deeply anti-intellectual, resolutely ignorant.  Donald Trump <i>is<\/i> their achievement, and they have done incalculable harm to the country.  They can&#8217;t hide who they really are, or what they really value, or what they really think is important, behind smiling pieties any longer.  Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White born again Christians are the reason Trump is in the White House. Full stop. &mdash; sean. (@SeanMcElwee) July 14, 2017 It was white evangelicals who were Trump&#8217;s indispensable supporters, and it is to white evangelicals that Trump turns when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}